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Hi everyone I’m so excited about my latest mixed media pattern pack ‘Ellie-May’. I know a lot of you loved my elephant that I did a few months ago and my evening art club are having a great time producing their own mixed media elephants using my design….so I thought I would share it as […]

Hi everyone Sorry I’ve not posted for a while….I’m on a different treatment now and it’s taken a few weeks to get it sorted. Then my oncologist was kind enough to say he didn’t need to see me for two weeks instead of one so we jumped in our motorhome the next day and headed […]

Had fun last weekend, repeating my LOVE mixed media but on a different theme….. If you’ve been to a mixed media workshop with me, why not get out your notes, pick a different theme/colour etc and see what happens 🙂 I would love to see what you achieve! Have a great weekend. Dawn x

I’ve been feeling a lot better the last few days, most probably because chemo has stopped and I am starting to have more energy 🙂 Yesterday I thought it would be fun to make a new Youtube video so decided to do another daisy one, you’ll have to excuse my nails….yet another side effect of […]

Nothing gives me more pleasure than seeing work that students have done at home after coming to a workshop. It’s so good to see that I have inspired people to have a go without me being there ha ha, and create something beautiful that they are proud of…..must mean my class notes aren’t too bad […]

Hi everyone I haven’t been up to creating any new pieces recently as chemo fatigue seems to have taken over, but I hope to have a ‘play’ soon….in fact I was looking through my Christmas books a few days ago (sorry for the C word in July!!) as before I know it I will be […]

Over the last few weeks I have been creating a canvas based around my name using a loose style of painting which I have built up with layers. I started with the letters and then thought of designs that began with those letters, weaving them through the text. Even though I wanted this to be […]

Last night, after a pretty rough day with chemo fatigue, I suddenly had the urge to do some more to my hot air balloon mixed media piece…..and in the end was well chuffed as I finished it 🙂 I wanted to add some textured baskets so book paper came to mind, with some floated shadows […]

This week got off to a great start with three Powder Play workshops 🙂 I had lots of fun sharing all the different ways you can use Brushos Powders….sprinkling, spritzing, layering….and with beautiful vibrant colours I knew everyone would be excited by what they achieved. We combined the different techniques into a little sample book […]

Morning everyone I just realised that I hadn’t blogged my most recent mixed media piece…Bibbles the Elephant. This really was a ‘lets see what happens’ piece, using lots of different media and I’m really chuffed with how she came out. I fancied painting an elephant but not in the traditional way using just acrylics but […]

As so many of you are keen to do this design by Linda Lock I am running this one day workshop again at the end of April. Go to my workshops page for full details and get back to me asap if you would like to come along, some places have gone already as I had a […]

On Tuesday I taught a fab design by a favourite artist of mine, Linda Lock….Silver Butterfly is a mixed media project using texture paste, acrylics, silver leaf and stamps. Lots of my students have been wanting me to share this design for a while and I’m so glad I did!! We blended our backgrounds, […]